Dear Christine, I thank you so much for taking the time to search for a recording! Though I am a bit disappointed that a recording doesn't exist. Maybe someday... Sincerely, Randall -----Original Message----- From: Moderated Classical Music List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Christine Labroche Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:34 AM Subject: Re: Milhaud "David" Opera recording? Randall Davis asks about Milhaud's "David": >I have read about it, and would love to hear a recording if one exists. >And if one exists, where it may be purchased? I have searched with no >results. Unfortunately, you searched well, I think... I put the question to 'my' French list, whose members include a few French-opera enthusiasts. They had also searched in vain. They have never found any trace of an existing recording and are aware of none even in French radio archives. They think Milhaud's operas are sadly neglected... To cheer us up a little, I propose Milhaud's "Boeuf sur le toit" in the high-spirited version for violin and orchestra - "Cinema-Fantaisie" - which chases the blues as it forever slips into delicious dissonance and dazzles with its dizzy rhythms, spinning the violin into stunning counterpoint. (Honegger wrote the riveting cadenza). My favourite version remains Kremer with Chailly and the LSO, but a young French violinist has just recorded it (Renaud Capucon, 2003) with the equally young Daniel Harding and the Breme State Philharmonic. It's not at all operatic I know, sorry, but, just to cheer us up, what a delicious, well-written, light-hearted romp - irresistible... Christine